FICTION
DIALECTICS OF A RETROSPECTIVELY CONSTRUCTED FICTION
outside the inside the familiar +wet without warning low tide
now into a series of houses gimme the illusion of shelter in a
607 page tome a girl is born over+over again on a february day
in 1910 lives through 2 wars dies in the blitz 4 times or more
carnage in London crawls across a sludgey baby in bomb shelter
clothes blown off of bodies ½ a woman hangs from rafters in a
flowered dress some physicists say reality is all in the mind a self
scripted creation are all acts of: promising praying marrying self
performances? if so what are the moral implications?
it is highly likely mathematically that we perform this life repetitively
in a palimpsest of identity in the book she suicides purposefully in order
to be reborn +kill Adolph remembering bits of former selves in murky
déjà vu what would you undo?
tonight there will be a Perseid meteor shower a ladder will appear over
the hot-tub you can escape the longslide but you must go alone today
a boy told me he’s writing a story about a man who after a mishap is
trapped in a spaceship bound for Mars it’s about lonliness
I ask: 1) was he lonely before he boarded the ship? 2) will that help him
with the long red days of Martian solitude? He isn’t sure He smiles+winks
+his freckles form a sentence: Poet! take the ladder
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(it is a fact that depressed individuals are known to await the apocalypse in
a state of dead calm)
Late Summer 2015
